Andréa Rodriguez

Andréa Rodriguez now serves as Director of the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities.

Before her promotion to Director, Andréa served as Assistant Director, where she played a crucial role in advancing student success, university transformation, and 21st-Century workforce efforts. Her extensive experience and knowledge in the higher education space, with a particular emphasis on equity, access, and social justice, gives her the ability to lead cross-institutional student success projects. Andréa has now assumed full leadership of the Frontier Set initiative, a major Bill and Melinda Gates grant in APLU/USU’s portfolio.

Her commitment to supporting higher education systems, community, and university partnerships, across the APLU and USU networks, will help advance APLU/USU’s collective impact efforts.

Andréa earned her B.S in English Literature and her M.A. in Liberal Studies with a focus on Secondary Education from The College at Brockport, SUNY. She later pursued a Master of Education in Higher Education Administration with a focus on Student Affairs from George Washington University. She is currently completing her Ed.D. in Educational Leadership and Management, focusing on Education Policy at Drexel University.

Andréa is the daughter of immigrant parents from Ecuador and Uruguay and a first-generation high school graduate, whose language is Spanish.